Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

I'm afraid it's not much use to you, Mr. Rumblebuffin.' Not at all. Not at all.' said the giant politely. 'Never met a nicer hankerchee.

Callie Khouri

Movie studios are owned by giant corporations. They care about money; they don't care about movies.

Al Pacino

[Marlon] Brando's a giant on every level. When he acts it's as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.

Neil Armstrong

That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

Bill Murray

You don't have to have all this film stock, you can work faster, and you don't need a giant crew. It's great.

Beth Moore

The giant step in the walk of faith is the one we take when we decide God no longer is a part of our lives. He IS our life.

Mike Hampton

Lee truly was a giant in the health insurance industry. Those of us who have worked for him were greatly honored to have that opportunity and we will miss him deeply. Not only was he our boss, but he was a true friend.

Dennis Miller

Even the best psychiatrist is like a blindfolded auto mechanic poking around under your hood with a giant foam "We're #1" finger.

Kate Forsyth

The ogres and witches and giants of fairytales stand in as metaphors for those obstacles that we all face in our own lives.

Carlos Beltran

I'm a family man. I just love being around my family.

C. S. Lewis

You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better - the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read.

C. S. Lewis

Last year, when he had been staying with the Pevensies, he had managed to hear them all talking of Narnia and he loved teasing them about it. He thought of course that they were making it all up; and as he was far too stupid to make anything up himself, he did not approve of that.

C. S. Lewis

It is, of course, quite true that God will not love you any less, or have less use for you, if you happen to have been born with a very second-rate brain.

C. S. Lewis

It is no disparagement to the garden to say it will not fence and weed itself, nor prune its own fruit trees, nor roll and cut its own lawns...It will remain a garden only if someone does all these things to it...If you want to see the difference between [the garden's] contribution and the gardener's, put the commonest weed it grows side by side with his hoes rakes, shears, and a packet of weed killer; you have put beauty, energy, and fecundity beside dead, steril things. Just so, our 'decency and common sense' show grey and deathlike beside the geniality of love.

Agnes Smedley

Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won't hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!

Agnes Repplier

Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients ...

Agnes Repplier

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

Aaron Stanford

Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.

John Miner

When it was put there in 1982, there were very specific reasons why,

Nick Flynn

The only strategy I know of is to write every day, which I don't always do, because sometimes I just can't, for various reasons that seem out of my control.

Lydia Leonard

You have to accept that when you don't get the part, it's to do with all sorts of reasons completely beyond your control, unless you know it's because you weren't prepared.

Kurt Barnard

One of the reasons why stores did not do better than they did is because there were not enough new designs, not enough new fashions.

John Grisham

One of the reasons we wanted to target Mississippi is, obviously, we are from there,

Debra Conner

One of the reasons we have been so successful as a staff is every single staff person was a volunteer before being a staff member.

Doug Gottlieb

There are reasons why teams are 8-9 seeds.

Drew Brees

There are a lot of reasons to be motivated.

Scott Bullock

There are many reasons to support an alternative site,

Jorge Cruz

We want our voices to be heard. Us students, we will take action. We will stand up for what we believe.

Jeff Olson

The expectations are very high. The standards were set long before I was born.

Boomer Esiason

Nobody, from that standpoint, is any luckier than I am or will ever be any luckier than I am. It's great.

Norma Aviles

Wake up. See what's happening. Today it's me, tomorrow it could be you standing here. It's a place you don't want to stand.

Alan Paton

Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

Alan Bennett

Of course my standards are out of date! That's why they're called standards.

Bob Doyle

We want to stand on our two feet.

Charles Handy

You have to stand outside the box to see how the box can be re-designed.

Coco Chanel

Keep your heel, head and standards high.

Byron Katie

We fear only what we haven’t understood.

Elie Wiesel

My God was never happiness, but to understand and be understood.

Carl Jung

Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.

Arthur Helps

We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest.

Jessica Sanchez

On 'Idol,' I understood that everyone wanted to hear my vocals, so I stuck with the ballads.

Nigel Hamilton

I've never really understood the term 'Post-Impressionism' as more than a label for Cezanne, Gauguin and van Gogh.

Stephen Covey

What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.

Mary Wilson

We have always understood that visibility is viability.

Charles Darwin

Music was known and understood before words were spoken.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Sophie Germain proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and for that reason would well have deserved an honorary degree.

Agnes Repplier

Woman is quick to revere genius, but in her secret soul she seldom loves it.

Charlotte Bronte

It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication.

Charles Dudley Warner

A woman set on anything will walk right through the moral crockery without wincing.

Charles Dudley Warner

Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical, and having less imagination; they are more fitted for practical affairs, and would make fewer failures in business.

Charles Caleb Colton

Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.

Charles Caleb Colton

Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.

Charles Caleb Colton

A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.